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The Indescribable and the Undiscussable - Reconstructing Human Discourse After Trauma (Paperback)
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The Indescribable and the Undiscussable - Reconstructing Human Discourse After Trauma (Paperback)
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People - laymen and practitioners alike - face serious difficulties
in making sense of each other's feelings, behaviour, and discourse
in everyday life and after traumatic experiences. Acknowledging and
working through these difficulties is the subject of this book.
After a critical look at the psychological and philosophical
literature, the author identifies two groups of impediments. First,
the indescribable, as it appears when individuals try to understand
and integrate their first heart attack into their previous
life-experience, when a group of pathfinders talk about their
different maps of the mind and nature, or when a team of welfare
practitioners tries to develop a common approach to their regional
population. Second, the undiscussable, as it appears in the
transmission, from generation to generation, of the traumatic
experiences of the families of both Holocaust survivors and Nazi
perpetrators, the book showing how their descendants can work
through the burden of the past by confronting themselves and each
other through a prolonged group encounter. This text provides a way
of looking at life experiences, individual as well as
inter-personal. It proposes a psychological theoretical framework
in a way to which both laymen and professionals can relate while
confronting similar issues in their everyday experiences and
discourse. It relates to the problems of psychological adaptation
arising from the transition from totalitarian to democratic
regimes, which is especially relevant to present-day Central and
Eastern European societies.
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